J. J. L. Duyvendak
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Jan Julius Lodewijk Duyvendak (28 June 1889 – 9 July 1954) was a Dutch
Dao De Jing.[1] He was co-editor of the renowned sinology journal T'oung Pao with French scholar Paul Pelliot
for several decades.
Life
J. J. L. Duyvendak was born on 28 June 1889 in
interpreter at the Dutch embassy in Beijing before gaining a position at Leiden University in 1919. During World War II, Duyvendak worked to protect Jews living in the Netherlands from Nazi
forces.
Duyvendak became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1931.[2]
In 1942, Duyvendak published one of the first articles in a Western language on the Crab Nebula supernova as observed by Chinese astronomers in 1054 during the Song dynasty.
Published works
- "The Book of Lord Shang", Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1928
- "The True Dates of the Chinese Maritime Expeditions in the Early Fifteenth Century". T'oung Pao, 1938
- "Further Data Bearing on the Identification of the Crab Nebula with the Supernova of 1054 AD: Part I, the Ancient Oriental Chronicles", Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 54, no. 318, 1942, pp. 91–94.
- Tao Te Ching, "The Book of the Way and Its Virtue", London: John Murray, 1954
References
Citations
- ^ Paul Demiéville, "J.J.L. Duyvendak (1889-1954)", T'oung Pao 43 (1954-55): 1-33.
- ^ "J.J.L. Duyvendak (1889 - 1954)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
Sources
External links
- Short bio of Duyvendak at UMass Amherst
- Letter from Duyvendak to the astronomer Jan Oort & correspondence by Oort and W. Baade (Leiden University Library)
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